Mr Durst frequently interrupted Thursday’s hearing, at one point reportedly heading towards the nearest door in his wheelchair and telling the court to “Have a good weekend”.

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Mr Durst was the subject of a documentary series shown on US television

His lawyers argued there was not enough cause for a trial, as there are no fingerprints or DNA data to link Mr Durst to Ms Berman’s death.

But Judge Mark Windham said the tycoon’s recorded comments on the show “operate as a succinct confession” to several murders, unless he can offer an explanation.

Mr Durst was acquitted of murdering his elderly neighbour Morris Black in 2001, successfully arguing he had killed him on the grounds of self-defence before cutting up the body.

The unsolved deaths

Kathleen McCormack: Robert Durst’s first wife went missing in 1982 and is presumed dead

Susan Berman: This close friend of the Durst family was killed in 2000, shot in the head in her Los Angeles home

Morris Black: Mr Durst killed his elderly neighbour in 2001 in what he described as self-defence during a struggle over a gun. Mr Durst’s lawyers argued he then panicked and disposed of the body – by cutting it up – and he was acquitted

In deciding Mr Durst should stand trial, the judge said he also considered Mr Durst’s comments about the accuracy of his portrayal in the film All Good Things.

The fictional 2010 movie, starring Ryan Gosling as a character based on Robert Durst and directed by The Jinx’s filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, depicts the life of the tycoon and shows him as a murderer.

Asked about it in commentary for the DVD, Mr Durst said: “I felt the movie was very, very, very close in much of the ways about what, pretty much, happened.”

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